Injustice and outcomes: a comparative analysis of two major disputes

Abstract

Injustice is said to be the cornerstone of collective action, but why is it so important, and how does the way in which it is framed for mobilisation affect the outcomes? This paper compares two lengthy disputes in the Australian electricity industry which demonstrate that a sense of injustice and a history of successful industrial action do not guarantee that a dispute will be resolved to employees’ satisfaction when the wider context is unfavourable. Although leaders of both disputes expressed confidence in success predicated on the outcomes of previous industrial activity, there were specific factors within the industrial, economic and political context which provoked determined employer and government counter mobilisation leading to unsuccessful outcomes for the workers in dispute. The reasons for the poor outcomes are discussed within the context of the framing of the injustice by leaders and the effect of the response of a determined government.     

Contested Resource Extraction,Anti-Corporate Protests and the Politics of Movement Alliance in Bangladesh

Why do activist groups form alliances and why do some alliances later fall apart? This article asks these questions in the context of a popular mobilisation against resource extraction in Bangladesh. It focuses on the dynamics of a strategic alliance between a locally organised community mobilisation against a British mining company and an urban radical activist group, known for its anti-capitalist activism, to explore the subsequent collapse of the alliance and the demobilisation of one group. Based on the qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with activists and organisational documents, the article probes the underlying causes of rupture. Although several individual and organisational factors are identified, it is argued that Bangladesh’s confrontational political culture and its authoritarian party system played a critical role, with local activists vulnerable to co-optation or being silenced by powerful political actors. The article contributes to social movement scholarship by emphasising that specific political cultures can undermine efforts to build strategic alliances between diverse social movement organisations.     

浅谈保安业突破发展的几点构想

中国保安业已走过22年的风雨历程,取得了可喜的成绩和迅速的发展,但仍存在着职业化水平低,经营业务范围狭窄,经营者管理理念落后,职业稳定性差,从业人员教育训练不到位等诸多问题。寻求保安业的突破与进一步发展,其核心问题：一是政府对保安的社会职能如何规定,对保安职业怎样定位;二是社会公众对保安的理解问题。     

Limits to non‐state market regulation: A qualitative comparative analysis of the international sport footwear industry and the Fair Labor Association

Non‐state market regulation has become a central focus and continues to receive scholarly attention. The present paper provides an assessment of the conditions under which multinational firms join a multi‐stakeholder certification initiative. The cases of the Fair labor Association and 17 international sport footwear companies have been selected for this purpose. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the 17 cases is performed. The paper argues that the combination of sustained NGO pressure and public ownership of a firm is a necessary precondition for firms joining a multi‐stakeholder certification initiative. The theoretical and policy implications of this result are discussed.     

我国城市生活垃圾产业市场化探讨

通过对我国城市生活垃圾处理现状进行分析,作者提出只有将垃圾产业市场化,才能根本解决我国城市垃圾问题。     

榆林建设低碳城市的战略思考

建设低碳城市是榆林市的重大战略选择,榆林建设低碳城市具有显著的比较优势、后发优势和政策优势。榆林全面建设低碳城市的战略路径须从制定低碳城市规划、推进产业低碳化发展、实施更严格的低碳生产技术标准、打造低碳示范社区和消费低碳化等方面入手。     

Sensory speculations:Visual discourse and the vision of visuality

It is now commonplace within the discipline of art history and visual culture to speak to theories of vision and visuality. Recent questions concerning the subject of vision, sexed positionalities and discourses of viewing are indebted to theories of visuality, which now occupy a privileged place within the study of visual culture. Theories of visuality have revealed both the terms of cultural visibilities and significantly the how of what we see. And yet despite this engagement of the opacity and duplicity of the visual, recent work into visuality has been plagued by a re‐occurring myopia regarding the corporeal This oversight within the visibilites of visual discourse is the unchallenged idea of a ‘human vision’ within the social constructivist project. In this article I assess how this universal operates as the matter for theories of visuality and of the ramifications of this for the project of the critique of vision.     

山西省煤炭资源税计征体系的完善

近年来,随着煤炭价格不断上涨,煤炭资源税从量征收的弊端不断显现,我省作为重要能源基地受到的影响更为明显,煤炭行业资源税计征体系亟待完善。现阶段我省推行煤炭行业资源税从价征收会产生一些益处,但同时也会带来一些问题,所以不能依靠单一的政策或行业,要制定从价从量、结合计征的政策,推进行业整合、节约资源,促进企业煤电一体、降低成本,从而建立起完善科学的资源税计征体系。     

人民法院委托行业协会调解的实践及其规制——以金融纠纷调解为视角

人民法院委托行业协会调解制度是努力构建多元化纠纷解决机制背景下出现的一种新型委托调解方式。必须通过厘定可委托调解案件范围的界限、适用辨清事实和司法审查相结合的辅助制度、加强培训及增加激励等举措完善该项制度。     

贵州文化创意产业的制度约束与市场化改革

建立现代、开放、创造、市场化的文化创意产业是贵州经济社会发展的战略问题,也是提升贵州文化事业发展水平的重要条件。贵州文化创意产业存在的制度约束包括：文化创意理念和认识严重滞后;＂企社学＂（企业、社会、学术机构）等参与的文化事业管理环节被政府部门过度管制化;文化创意的研发严重滞后;非公有制企业被＂过度管制＂,非公有制企业未得到应有的市场自由;以开发为导向的文化创意产业网络尚未形成,结构亟待调整。改革路径包括：推进企社学环节的去政府管制化的总体性改革;建立以企业为主体,非公有制企业主导的文化创意产业研发制度;改革健全文化项目评估机制,突出文化创意产业的社会价值导向等。